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TO 4 1 Ford choice for justice ice first rate Stevens served as court clerk clerkin in early career By Robert T. T McFadden NY Times Service I NEW YORK Twenty-eight Twenty years ago as a young Chicagoan with a sheaf of references an unprepossessing manner and a new law degree John JohnPaul JohnPaul JohnPaul Paul Stevens went to Washington to begin two years of service as law clerk deck to Justice Wiley Rutledge of d the tb Us U.s. Supreme Court Friday the former forma clerk was selected select by President Ford to return to the court this time as an associate justice and successor to William 0 O. Douglas The man chosen by the President is the year old judge of the th Us U.s. Court of Appeals A for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago a bench to which he be was posted in 1970 1990 by President Nixon Stevens's five years in the appellate court constitute his bis only oily experience in inthe inthe inthe the judiciary but they have generated more mare than opinions and earned him hima a reputation as a man with a thoughtful intellect and a a- solid and scholarly if Jar approach to the law It was a style developed dev loped during more than two decades of private law practice in Chicago primarily in the antitrust and corporate fields a practice interrupted occasionally for service as counsel to various state and federal agencies His cases as a lawyer and as a judge have not been publicized widely t but ut among his colleagues on the bench and andin andin andin in the t e law profession Stevens is regarded as a moderate conservative with nominally Republican credentials but little background or interest in politics Hes a rate first lawyer a first rate judge and am a rate first-rate person more than cant can't ask for fur said Philip Kurland an authority on Oll constitutional law at the University of Chicago Another University of Chicago professor Kenneth Dam who is a specialist in ui antitrust antitrust law said Stevens S was w considered one e of tIe the strongest judges on the federal bench sad Js 4 died added tae L. L Ms his own on ob the tb e eo ait rt Stevens is a quiet mild mannered man whose modesty esty sometimes is taken for fot shyness He is 17 11 meters 5 10 tall weighs about bout 76 78 kilograms pounds has graying hair and blue eyes And be he likes lies to wear bow ties tics He underwent open heart surgery several years ago but is said to to have recovered fully and am plays golf oc oo- occasionally although he has bas given up the themore themore themore more energetic game of squash Stevens also flies his own small airplane he is a good bridge player takes an occasional mixed nixed drink and ac ac- according according ac- ac according cording to friends fried has a quiet humor and little tolerance for pontification The judge is a member of a prominent Chicago family that prospered in the insurance business and once o owned the fee Stevens Hotel now the Chicago Hilton He was born April 20 1920 the son of Ernest James and Elizabeth Street Str et Stevens He had bad a brilliant academic record graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University Ul of Chicago in fn 1951 After serving with distinction in the Navy from 1942 to 1945 be he obtained his law degree from Northwestern from Northwestern University in 1947 graduating first in his class For the next two years he was Rutledge's law bw clerk Berk at the Supreme Court He then returned to Chicago to enter law practice spending his first few years with a firm farm that now is heeded headed by Albert E. E Jenner the chief minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committee last year when it recommended recommended mended impeachment the of Nixon WIXon In 1950 Stevens was an associate counsel for fora a congressional sub sub- subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee committee studying monopoly and from 1954 to 1955 he was a member of the Attorney Generals General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws LawsIn In Li 1969 1009 he was teas general counsel for a special Illinois Supreme Court com com- commission commission commission mission th that t investigated allegations of misconduct against two state Supreme Court justices who subsequently resigned From 1952 1 2 until his appointment to the federal bench in 1970 be he was was a partner in the e Chicago law Jaw firm of Rothschild Stevens Barry do Myers

TO 4 1 Ford choice for justice ice first rate Stevens served as court clerk clerkin in early career By Robert T. T McFadden NY Times Service I NEW YORK Twenty-eight Twenty years ago as a young Chicagoan with a sheaf of references an unprepossessing manner and a new law degree John JohnPaul JohnPaul JohnPaul Paul Stevens went to Washington to begin two years of service as law clerk deck to Justice Wiley Rutledge of d the tb Us U.s. Supreme Court Friday the former forma clerk was selected select by President Ford to return to the court this time as an associate justice and successor to William 0 O. Douglas The man chosen by the President is the year old judge of the th Us U.s. Court of Appeals A for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago a bench to which he be was posted in 1970 1990 by President Nixon Stevens's five years in the appellate court constitute his bis only oily experience in inthe inthe inthe the judiciary but they have generated more mare than opinions and earned him hima a reputation as a man with a thoughtful intellect and a a- solid and scholarly if Jar approach to the law It was a style developed dev loped during more than two decades of private law practice in Chicago primarily in the antitrust and corporate fields a practice interrupted occasionally for service as counsel to various state and federal agencies His cases as a lawyer and as a judge have not been publicized widely t but ut among his colleagues on the bench and andin andin andin in the t e law profession Stevens is regarded as a moderate conservative with nominally Republican credentials but little background or interest in politics Hes a rate first lawyer a first rate judge and am a rate first-rate person more than cant can't ask for fur said Philip Kurland an authority on Oll constitutional law at the University of Chicago Another University of Chicago professor Kenneth Dam who is a specialist in ui antitrust antitrust law said Stevens S was w considered one e of tIe the strongest judges on the federal bench sad Js 4 died added tae L. L Ms his own on ob the tb e eo ait rt Stevens is a quiet mild mannered man whose modesty esty sometimes is taken for fot shyness He is 17 11 meters 5 10 tall weighs about bout 76 78 kilograms pounds has graying hair and blue eyes And be he likes lies to wear bow ties tics He underwent open heart surgery several years ago but is said to to have recovered fully and am plays golf oc oo- occasionally although he has bas given up the themore themore themore more energetic game of squash Stevens also flies his own small airplane he is a good bridge player takes an occasional mixed nixed drink and ac ac- according according ac- ac according cording to friends fried has a quiet humor and little tolerance for pontification The judge is a member of a prominent Chicago family that prospered in the insurance business and once o owned the fee Stevens Hotel now the Chicago Hilton He was born April 20 1920 the son of Ernest James and Elizabeth Street Str et Stevens He had bad a brilliant academic record graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University Ul of Chicago in fn 1951 After serving with distinction in the Navy from 1942 to 1945 be he obtained his law degree from Northwestern from Northwestern University in 1947 graduating first in his class For the next two years he was Rutledge's law bw clerk Berk at the Supreme Court He then returned to Chicago to enter law practice spending his first few years with a firm farm that now is heeded headed by Albert E. E Jenner the chief minority counsel to the House Judiciary Committee last year when it recommended recommended mended impeachment the of Nixon WIXon In 1950 Stevens was an associate counsel for fora a congressional sub sub- subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee committee studying monopoly and from 1954 to 1955 he was a member of the Attorney Generals General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws LawsIn In Li 1969 1009 he was teas general counsel for a special Illinois Supreme Court com com- commission commission commission mission th that t investigated allegations of misconduct against two state Supreme Court justices who subsequently resigned From 1952 1 2 until his appointment to the federal bench in 1970 be he was was a partner in the e Chicago law Jaw firm of Rothschild Stevens Barry do Myers